It arose in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1916 during World War I, in the Cabaret Voltaire environment where exiles writers and artists, refugees and disappointed, gathered . From this core is also strongly developed in Paris and New York. The main architect of the group was the poet Tristan Tzara. Dada is a meaningless word, invented from random (opening a dictionary at random), with an attitude of protest, to reject all established, including art museums and art of the avant-garde. Its components even classified as antiartístiques works. About Dada is a provocative, daring, controversial, irony, mockery, surprise, scandal. They considered more important the creative act rather the result of creation itself. They wanted to discredit the traditional artwork, creating instead a proposal nihilistic, illogical and absurd.Formal Influences: Cubism, photography (photomontages) and surrealism.
Artistas y obras
Marcel Duchamp (1889-1968). Primero investigó en el cubismo y futurismo hasta tomar un nuevo camino que lo sitúa como precursor del dato: la creación, como protesta y ridiculización del arte, del ready-made, objetos ya creados descontextualizados, dándoles una nueva significación y demostrando que la obra de arte se podía hacer de cualquier cosa.

Artists and worksMarcel Duchamp (1889-1968). First investigated in Cubism and Futurism to take a new path that makes him a precursor of Dada: the creation, in protest and ridicule of art, of the ready-made, objects already made out of context, giving a new meaning and demonstrating that the work of art could be made from anything.
Obras:

The Large Glass (Single Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, married Stripped Bare by her celibate) complex iconographic work consisting of two symmetrical glass representing the masculine and the feminine universe by added objects, paint and thread lead. He left the work for not knowing how to continue it until the accidental breakage of glass, causing a fracture symmetrical in both crystals was the solution. The accident was integrated into the artwork.

Kurt Schwitters. (1887-1948). Introduced waste in his collages, merzbilders calling. Example: The Psychiatrist, representing a human face to which are added various objects like a typewriter roller, a piece of metal, buttons …